Renormalization. An introduction

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This book aims at bridging the gap between the time-honored renormalization procedures as presented in physics courses and the more rigorous approach found in mathematical physics literature. It is also meant as an introduction to the subject of perturbative renormalization with all its ramifications and highly specialized (graph theoretical) techniques. However, it restricts to studying the scalar selfinteracting field (Chapters 1-3) in various dimensions, which is mainly an ultraviolet problem, and the many-electron problem for solids above the Curie temperature (Chapter 4), which is mainly an infrared problem. Chapter 1 provides the necessary background (Euclidean functional integrals) while, in Chapter 2, the author introduces the graphical representation and the effective-action concept. Chapter 3, the central part of the book, is devoted to studying Wilson's renormalization group approach starting from a high-momentum cutoff. Though the treatment is self-contained and rigorous, there is no mentioning of the BPHZ approach to the same problem, nor does the reader find a connection to the Epstein-Glaser procedure or the Callan-Symanzik equation. Consequently, popular themes such as beta functions, ultraviolet fixed points, and asymptotic freedom are left out, as well as the mathematical question of convergence of the perturbation series.




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